go1.8.5 (released 2017/10/25) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime,
documentation, go command, and the crypto/x509 and net/smtp packages. It
includes a fix to a bug introduced in Go 1.8.4 that broke go get of non-Git
repositories under certain conditions. See the Go 1.8.5 milestone on our issue
tracker for details:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Ubuntu 17.04 will be released soon http://releases.ubuntu.com/zesty/
Note that this is a short-term release, so will
EOL (and removed again) in 9 months
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>